Just posting this because someone might be interested. For those that don't know cmp is the civilian marksmanship program. Yes the .gov still wants us to have guns and will give you a "deal" if you just shoot in an organized match.civilian marksmanship program
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International Harvester corporation m1 garands. Cmp currently has 511 service grade ihc m1 garand rifles (with lmr barrels) available for purchase. The cmp north and cmp south stores will be allocated 64 of these rifles each. The balance of 383 rifles will be reserved for mail order purchase. Price of these rifles, cmp item number rm1ihcslmr, is $975 plus $29.95 s&h. Cmp also has 384 service grade ihc m1 garand rifles that do not have lmr barrels. Price of these rifles, cmp item number rm1ihcs, is $925 plus $29.95 s&h. Please note that the only part on either of these two item numbers guaranteed to be the ihc is the receiver. Purchasers are limited to only one ihc m1 garand per customer. Mail orders will be accepted immediately until enough orders are received to allocate the current inventory. Rifles will be available at the stores on 5 June, 2014. We do still have approximately 2,000 ihc rifles to inspect and repair and make ready for sale. We expect the next partial ihc release to be in November, 2014, but it May be sooner.